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Are thison afterno more sun equals stronger storms and more clouds we might not see that much in the way of storms later today. But as i put on the satellite and the radar, notice the breaks in the cloud cover around th as idor and the blue ridge well. So were getting in on some sunshine and i think well see a few thunderstorms today. Mainly between about 3 00 and the biggest concern is heavy rainfall, after that some strong gustyindshat could lead to wind damage and maybe a bit of hail. Again, the times between about 3 00 and 7 00 p. M. Bu im going to get more specific on your neighborhood when you could be dealing with some storms with future weather coming up at 11 20. Thanks, amelia. To now Montgomery County where one person is dead a after breakin at a gun shig. And rht now police are trying to track down four other people. It all started this morning on randolph road in rockville where we find megan mcgrath. Reporter pat, it all began with a robbery here at the united gun shop on randolph road in rockville. You could see the damage done when the suspects drove a car into the front of the store. Now things quicklyca ested from there. Aff responding police oer fired on the suspects afterhey t his cruiser. One of the suspects is now dead. Four others are still on the loose. Policeou tweeted this picture of the stolen car used to ram the front of the uniteop gun s on randolph road. You could see all of the guns hanng on the wall. The suspects then used a second escape. Ar to make their but they were confronted by Police Officers in the parking lot. Investigators say the suspects rammed the policer cuiser. This picture shows the damage. E bumper that was torn off. The officer then opened fire. About two blocks down randolph the getaway car broke dwn in front of loemanns plaza. Pe one s was found dead with a gunshot wound in the car and three stolen handguns wereound nearby. Four other men bailed out and ran into the surrounding neighborhood. A bag of guns was fnd in someones backyard but the robbers got away. Creeped out. It is pretty scary. N this is something that happens here in in neighborhood at all and to hear that guns were found four houses down from me inhe backyard is very creepy. Reporter police searched the neighborhood but no luck. Investigators still arent sure how many guns the thieves m e off with. Going through the store, doing an investigation to try to have an inventory ofat ay have been stolen, and we need to determine based upon the number of weapons that we recovered what may still be outstanding. Making hey are still that count, that assessment of how many guns may be on the street. Of course the search for the suspenus conti. Police have not released the name of the man who died. Also worth mentioning, another very similar robbery at a gun shop yesterday in laur and it is unclear if there is any connection between the incidents but sometng police in bothis jurctions will look at. Back to you. N very braze robbery there, thanyou so much. This morning a contract employee isccused of sexual abusing a young girl at a d. C. School. Police say the abuse happened between january and mayhi of t year at capitol hill montessori. Jestin hickman is accused of having sexual contact with a 13yearold girl. Hetas a contr worker for the spring board education america which runs afterschool programs at several d. C. Schools. Our News Partners at wtop report capitol hill was the only schooe where h worked while employed by the company and now dcps is suspending the relationship and during the investigation hes charged with seconddegree a new ban in Montgomery County. Smoking will not be allowed on tios and bars and restaurants. Justin finch is in bethesda with more on why thelt county fe this law was necessary. Reporter and now that wefi ally have warmer weather when it is not raining, it will be great to be outside and enjoy a nice meal on a patio like ts. But smokers and vapors will not be allowed to light up out here and eat and thatnforcement begins today. It turns out that Montgomery County Health Officials wi be enforcing this new law, rs and restaurants are the target. They get two warnings and on the third strike the bars and restaurants will eat a 50 fine. This is building out legislation passed in 20 that banned smoking inside of buildings here in the county and now that will extend outside as well as the past back in march. Y and a might imagine, it is stirring up debate. It is a good idea because smoking bad foyour health. Im not a smoker, but i thins it i discrimination against smoker. Reporter there is a loophole. They can have special smoking areas on rooftops and balconies at the bar and restaurants, but again very small spaces. It is not allowed any more on patios. In bethesda, im justin finch, nbc4. President trump said he would want to hear information about his 2020 political rivals from foreig governments. News4 tracie potts reports on thi stunning admission that has washington reeling this morning. They have information, i think i would take it. Reporter President Trump tells abls he would accept information on a political opponent from a foreign government. There is nothing wrong with listening. If somebody called from a country norway, we have information on your opponent. Oh, i think i would want to hear it. Reporter accepting help from foreign governments is what the russia investigation was all about. Mr. Trumps fbi director has said contacts with foreign governments should be reported. The fbi directorwr is ong. What donald trump said is unpatriotic and unbelievable. Accepting assistance from a hostile foreign poweri l russia is treasonous behavior. This is theti definion of collusion. Reporter his comments came as donald trump jr. Tld the Senate Intelligence committee about his 2016 meeting with the russian lawyer to get damaging information on hillary clinton. Sir, are you worried about perjury . Not at all. Eporter now former white house chungs director hope hicks is headed for the hot seat. This is definitely the first crack in the damor repter hicks will testify privately before the house wednesday. Mmittee on and were told there will be a transcript of her testimony immediately after s done. Tracie potts, nbc wanews, shington. Rning the mayor of uppermo this marlboro and pr georges county is setting the record straight about why she is resaning. Mayor tonga turner said her decision o step down has nothing to do with racism or bigotry. She said she wants to spend more time with her two young children. At a town hall meeting on monday, she said shes been the victim of racism, including threatening emails and slashed tires. It is never my intention to give the public that im pushed out or scared into leaving my role, a role that i so desperately love. That is not true. Turner acknowledges that racism in Upper Marlboro needs bea dress and the last day on the job is june 30th. An interim mayor will be appointed until a special election takes plache t virginia Lieutenant Governor is fighting to clear his name of Sexual Assault allegations. Back in april two women accued Justin Fairfax ofa a sex auandl now his legal team is challenging prosecutors to charge him if they believe he is guilty of Sexual Assault. Fairfax lawyers sent letters to massachusetts and North Carolina saying, quote, if a investigation we to determine the allegation is true, it should be criminally prosecuted and they go on to saylater, just as no serious crime should go unprosecuted no innocent person should have their reputation turnished. And if he is innocent the matter should be closed and his accusers have asked for bipartisan hearingsinstead. They say Law Enforcement is better equipped to deal the claims. T fairfax se encounters were consensual. New this morning, the u. S. Catholic bishops are taking steps to confront the sexual abuse crisisplaguing the catholic church. T the annual conference from baltimore, the bishops voted to create a newxu National Seal abuse hotline that will field allegations regarding bishops who have committed abuse or who have covered it up. People can call in or make ou complaints t an online link. The operators will ten relay all allegations to rional supervising bishops. Reporting system that goes to two of the review members of the review, to Law Enforcement. Is he national hotli expected to be up and running within a year. D. C. And maryland and virginia already has some form o sexual abuse hotline operational. Still ahead on news4 midday, a brandnew netflix seriesbrs eaking records less than two weeks after the debut. Well have the details. And plus local nba champ devin country ll be off the court r gameix but the wh you you act fast. Er. Boo so do we. Raid kills roaches 7 times faster than the next leading ant and roach spray. 7 times faster . Raid get raid and get tough on roaches fast. Sc johnson aheroes welco in st. Louis overnight. The blues landed back home after winning the stanley cup in boston. Check out the nhl championship belt. It is hard tota unders how big it is for the blues. Not onlye is it first stanley cup in history but the blues were dead last in the league back in january. After landing back home, the team hopped on to a bus and players continued their celebrationa downtown. Championship parade is still nn being. That should be a lot of fun. The other big talker today. Kevin durant recovering from major surgery. Hele revea on social media yesterday he ruptured his achilles in game five. This is the instagram ost him in the hospital. He had surgery in new york and told fans the road to recovery starts now. And the moment you see him fall back and almost sru where the ure happened. Tonight the warriors face elimination against the raptors in game six but the question is can they win the next two games without k. D. And in hindsight would the warriors have even played him monday if they knew he wasnt ready. Had we known that this was a possibility that this was even in the realm of possibility, there is no way we ever would have allowed kevin to come back. So its devastating mostly for kevin obviously. Here is the rally towel for tonights game in oakland. It is got a double meaning there. This is the very last game ator cle arena before the team moves to the chase center in san inancisco and there is a tribute to k. D. There as well. I didnt see anything. K vin i didnt see anything. I want to see my son right now. When they see us has been the most watched series on netflix every day since it premiered mayin31st accordto the tweet from the streaming services. The series depicti the men known as the central park five has resonated with people all over the country. The director retweetedith a simple one word response in thk. Now to the codmege aission cheating scandal. On growing reato the first sentencing in the case. And it is not what a lot of people were expecting. No ja time for the sailiac coh who admitted to lining his pockets to get wealthy kids into college. Nbcs Miguel Almaguer has more on this closelywatched case. Do you want to apologize . Any message to your former athletes . They looked up to you. Reporter prosecutors want John Vandemoer to spend 13 months in prison but the former head coach of the Stanford Sailing Team was instead sentenced to one day already served and six mons house arrest and two years supervised probation and a 10,000 fine. He apologized outside of federal ourt. Ive taken responsibility for my actions and im accepting the consequences of those actions. Reporter er aft pleading guilty to federal racketeering in march, he admitted to taking 610,000 in bribes to get students from wealthy families admitted into stanford assa ing recruits. But in federal court, where he and his family wept, his attorney asked for leniency,d instea of lining his own pocket, he used the money to pay for sailing uniforms and boats and equipment and staff costs. In no way could i have used the money for personal expenses or personal gain. My actions were wrong. I see that tew. Repor prosecutors were unable to get a stiffer sentence but after the hearing releasing this statement. We willcontinue to seek meaningful penalties in this these cases. With 22 defendants pleefding plead or agreeing to guilty, the judges decision likely got the attention of others like Felicity Huffman attending on time, the High School Graduation of her older daughter whose College Entrance exams were rigged. But some parents like hollywood celeb Lori Loughlin and his husband plan to fight. The largest cheating scam ending for one defendant as dozens more wait to learn their fate. That was Miguel Almaguer reporting. This is the first of many more sentencing and prosecutors sayr arents could be indicted and we should mentioneven though John Vandemoer did noy get an prison time, hes now considered a fellon. This mornings leader of a Northern Virginia congregation say somebody stole their rainbow pride flag. And it isnt the first time. Flag is flown outside of the Unitarian Universalist church in reston for two years. Someone stole the 11foot rainbow flag on top of a hill on wheelie avenue, the third time it was stolen in three months. The reverend wants the thieves to stealing the flag wont stop them from sporting the lgbtq community. Check this out. Did you happen to see this rare sight er washington yesterday. Two f35 fighter jets performing a fly overabove downtown d. C. And many asked if there was an emergency. It was not. It was a demonstration for the polish esident visiting President Trump. Poland is set to buy 32 of the jets so President Trump wanted to show themo off,frs have been limited since the terror attacks of september 11th. Are youready to experience the taste,d sights ane sounds of asian and Pacific Islander cultures here in the district . Head down to the Chinatown Community festival for that. Molette green is working for the community with the details. Reporter check out these ladies, they range in age from 63 to 88 and an important part of the chine culture with a fan dance. This is one of the elements that youll see at the Chinatown Community festival that kicks off on saturday. Also food. We have the spicy dish here that is going to be big feature this weekend. And coming over here to a vietnamese pancake with shrimp and chicken. But we want to address the very importa issues that the d. C. Office on asian and Pacific Islander affairs wants to address. Hepatitis and Mental Health issues. So jane, this is very important. It is very important. It is a silent killer and we need to get tested and well be at the Chinatown Community festival. Doing screenings for free. Come out and get screened. Reporter Mental Health important part of this. Janet, talk about this. A huge stigma in themm coity and that is why the project was created to make services for the Asian American community here in d. C. And the project will be out there and the Mayors Office putting this toget this is there fifth year, you very excited . Yes. Con out and join us on saturday. Reporter it all srts on saturday, we had to come in because of the rain. Thank you for pastor charles for letting ushi inside of the cse community church. So back into you. We have more of the taste and the sight andd culture anavor of the Chinatown Community festival. So here is the information for you one more time. The Chinatown Community festival this saturday at 11 00 a. M. It is at chinatown park on off. And this a loving reminder from his wife. This is will finally depositing. Oh, and this is will paying his brotherin law back with zellefo r their annual camping trip. And this is will finally relaxing for the long flight. This is your right here,ight now bank. This is wells fargo. This is a story from litania, a circus director locked himself in a cage with a bear and he was apparently doing this in protest after authorities said he could no longer havehe bear. Eventually the man did agree to hand ther. Bear ove this all comes after authorities discovered late last month that another bear had disappefred his circus. This morning we are seeing video of a truly wild car crash in nashville thatri a dver was ery lucky to be able to walk away from. The series of the events started with a sneeze and happened quickly so watch carefully. The driver behind the wheel of this suv said he sneezed sool viently he lost control. The suv rolled over and flipped several time before coming to a stop near an intersection. A nearby group of golfers and construction workers saw what happened and they ran over to help, working together they turned the suv upright and helped the driver out of the vehicle. Incredibly, hes okay. And if that werent enough, moments after he stepped out of the suv it burst into flames. Everyo backed off and first respondes put the flames out. Just incrible theyre okay. That they were all okay. Well, now, were going to the weather. So wild stuff. Still a little gray outside. Kind of feeling humid. From the rain that we had last night and so the question is are we getting more rain today . Well see some scattered showers out there and i think a few thunderstorms as well. Here is the th tng, werealking about this a few moments ago. O the m sunshine we see peeking out, the better chance we have for dealing with storms today. The more clouds were seeing out there, that would help to stiflm our sto chances. So im still keeping some scattered thunderstorms in the forecast. That is why were in weather alert mode. But i have been talking to doug today. We have our weather meeting every day at 2 30. He is going to be reassessing, cheing out the latest determining if we do need to stay in weather alert mode but i think well see sunshine and some pockets of heavier rain later today. If we do see severe thunderstorms it would potentially beaot only he rain but strong, gusty winds and hails. Th is your first weather headline. This is breezy tomorrow. Plenty of sunshine. If you like arefreshing breezy day, you will love it. If you are hoping for 90s, tomorrow and friday not so much. At the weekend, it is looking dry. Saturday is completely dry. T andn chance for rain in the forecast later in the day on sunday. I want to show you future weather. Here we are at 2 p. M. Bringing scattered showers to the area. Look at future weather 4 00 p. M. Look at the bright coloring in fauquier, loudoun and ederick county where we see potential severe thunderstorms, not only heavy rain but strong wind gusts up to 60 Miles Per Hour and hail. That threat continues toward the east at 5 00 p. M. , notice how it is moving through the d. C. Metro area. Montgomery, fairfax, Prince William and at 6 00 p. M. Seeing atthe storm thre shift more so east of i95 and the chance for rain and stormsiminishes by about 7 00, 8 00 p. M. And we dry out overnight and refreshing air moves in as the winds pick up tonight. Currently in the 60s. 66 in washington. 64 in frederick. 59 in culpeper. Im eing sunshine back to the west. So that is going to help to boost our temperatures. And again potentially touch off some of the Severe Weather later today. The timing for showers and storms really fors 3 00 and 7 00 p. M. Otherwise some sunshine today. And a High Temperature of 78 degrees. Ig our average is now coming in at 83. So today is another daye where w will be running below normal. The heat, though, builds in over the weekend. Much more on the weekend forecast coming t in a lit bit. But for now, were headed to commercial break. Announcer youre watching news4 midday. Were back nowt1 30 with the stunning admission from President Trump. In a new interview, the president said he may not tell the feds if foreign governments offered i damagingformation on his 2020 rival. This, of course, comes after the twoyear special couns probefocused on his 2016 campaign interactions with the russians. Nbcs Peter Alexander hase th story. Reporter President Trump asked by abc news whether he would accept information on his 2020 opponent from a foreign power or call the fbi . I think maybe you do both. I thinyou might want to listen. I know there is nothing wrong with listening. If somebody called from a country, norway, we have information on your opponent. Oh, i think i would want to hear you. You want that kind ofer intrence in our election. It is not an interference. If they have information, i would take it. If i thought ere was something wrong i would go maybe to the fbi if i thought there was something wrong. But if someone comes up with re earch, lets call the fbi. The fbi doesnt have enough agents to take care of it. Reporter just last month fbi director Christopher Wray made his posion clear. Ny if any public official or member of a campaign is contacted by any nation state or anybody acting on behalf of a nation state about influencing or interfering with our election, then that is something that the fbi would want to know epabout. Rorter the president disputing that. Oh, let meall the fbi. Give me a break. Life doesnt work that the fbi director said that is what should happen. The fbi directow is ng. Reporter it follows donald trump jr. Testifying again behind closed door. Are you here to correct your testimony . Nothing t correct. Reporter the president s oldest son hosted that 2016 trump tower meeting between campaignls officiand russians promising dirtn hillary clinton. The president defending his son who was not chargedwith a crime in connection with Robert Muellers investigation. Should he have gone to the fbiai when he got this put yourself in a position. Youre a congressman and somebody comes up and says, hey, i have information on your opponent. Do you call the fbi. Coming from my opinion you do. Ive seen a lot of things over my life. I dont think in my whole life ive called the f in my whole life. You dont call the fbi. You throw somebody out of your office. Reporter it comes as one of the most trusted confidants hope hicks will be the first former aide to testify before the House Judiciary Committee w investigatingther the president tried to obstruct justice. What hicks will be permitted to say next wednesday behind closed doors remainsclear since the president may assert executive testimony related to her time at the white house. And earlier this month directed hicks not to cooperate with are coional subpoena for white house documents. That was Peter Alexander rehorting. Hick testified before to the special Counsel Office as well as housent i committee. In that second onehe acknowledged telling, quote, white lies for the president. Today marks one year since the death of jordan mcnair. The 19yearold university ofnd maryootball player died two weeks after suffering heat stroke during a football workout. Today maryland coaches and players will participate in a health and wellness spts clinic in mcnairs honor. They want to increase awareness about heatrelated illnesses and anndependent investigation into the death determined that trainers at the scene did not follow proper procedures. Those trainers and the head coach, coach d. J. Durkin, were fired. Hockey players and skaters i bowie may lose their ice rink oing down re not without a fight. E thity Council Voted to freeze efforts to build a new arena. Nt the city spe 5 million of a 20 million project to replace thena a supporters hope the council will reconsider the decision at the new meeting on june 17th. We are folling a developing story out of memphis, tennessee. Dozens of officers were injured overnight as they tried to control a crowd. Take a look at the scene. The people were protesting after a u. S. Marshal shot and killed a man yesterday afternoon. At least 25 officers wre injured in the chaos. Any feeling under the weath t but dont wanto take the time to goo the doctor. Well were running down the best overthecounter the bt buys you can fd in the pharmacy aisle. The best overthecounter buys, advil was the top pick for treating your head ache, back pain and muscle aches. Theeneric is ibuprofen. And for allergy, zyrtec was tops for adult and for children doctors recommend childrens claritin in a chewable or syrup. And for bug bites, stock up on afterbite. As you could guess from the name it is not going to do much to stop it but it can reeve irritation and small enough to throw into your purse. There are other top picks and in the d find them all nbc washington app. Just search overthecounter productsoo a lot of stuff there. And were working for you with a heads up about a tv show production thatill shut down streets in the district this weekend. Our News Partners at wtop report that parts of 17th and8 street will close from friday night through turday morning and that on saturday and sunday some of the streets near the newseum and the National Archives will be closed intermittently. And which show . Th is not clear yet. But were told it is for a tv mini series. So that is exciting. Well have to see about that. Keep our eyes peeled for that. So you are looking for sunshine if it happens, then we could get orms. If not, were okay . Not much in the way of storms. Absolutely. Now i do think were probably going to see pocketsof heavier rain. The timing on that between about 4 00 and 6 00 p. M. Right now on storm team 4 radar just light showers out there. Most of us d arey. Everybody is still seeing plenty of cloudiness. Check out what im talking about. You could see where the green is now. Some light showers around the centreville area just to the west o centreville around chantilly seeing sprinkles and then to the north around great s fallsinkles there. Continuing further to the north up around ballinger creek, a few sprinkles falling. So were dealing with isolated showers until about 2 00 p. M. And then we introduce the chance for a few thunderstorms as well. Ive added the satellite on to the radar to see this break here in the cloud cover back to our west. So this break in the clouds moving into our area, that sunshine is going to help to touch off and fuelse tho thunderstorms as an upperlevel disturbance moves through the area this afternoon. Based on that and the sunshine we could see some strong gusty winds and some hail as well. So here is your hourly planner. 1 00 p. M. , most of us still dry. 73 degrees but well start to see more sunshine out there. 3 00 p. M. , storms mainly west of the metro area. 5 00 p. M. , this is when storms are in the d. C. Metro area. D if they fire. 7 00 p. M. , storms are off to the east, east of i95. A tie temperature toda of 78 degrees. Tomorrow looking fabulous. Neary 80, bred sunny. I think it is beautiful out there. Might be a little bit cool if you are heading to the pool. As we look to the ekend, it is not bad for fathers day. New information coming in keeping sunday mainly dry. Especially during the day. Saturday, a high of 86. So it is warm and we do have plenty sunshine. It is hot on sunday. Look at your high. 92 degrees. It also starts to feel humid out there on sunday with a mix of clouds and sunshine and the chance for some lateday showers and thunderstorms. But i think even if you have the tee time at noon, getting off the course at 4 00 p. M. , probably still going to be okay. Ohopefully it is not to backed up and youre having a fivehour round if you are taking dad golfing. Dry at the beaches with the temperatures in the low 80s. The storm team 4 forecast, 70s and soak it up because were in the mid80s on saturday and en around 90 sunday, monday and tuesday. Also with those 90s comes high humidity and storm chances. Were off to commercial break nnce again ad well be back in well, it is official. Third and e. Streetaouthwest now officially renamed Hidden Figures way. We pre this for you yesterday morni. Nasa dedicated the street to catherine johnson, Dorothy Vaughn and mary jackson. The three africanamericanti sciensts who helped to advance Nasa Space Program during the 40s 5 and 60s and inspired the 2016 film hid n figures. Were looking at a new roller coaster at universal orlando. Ft is part of nbc universal, the Parent Company nbc news. The ride is dedicated to the Wizarding World of harr. Pot Kerry Sanders took a spin along with some harry potter super fans. Reporter from the opening scene of the first harry potter movie, hag rid on his motorbike bringing baby harry dumbbell dor and teaching a class on magical creanres. Is he beautiful . Say hello to buckby. This is hag radca teaches re of magical creatures but were not dressed for class yet. Before the ride there a moments fans willr. Remem so weve made it to hag rids cup. Look at all of the hagrids dragon egg. Do you see the golden egg . Yeah, look. Wow look, watch out for the book. That looks like hagrids motorcycle. Look at all of the parts. I think theyre building another one. Do you want to go for a ride. Reporter to take us through the forbidden forest we had an w expert played ron beasley. Look at who we found. Are you ready . Yeah, lets go. Hold tight, okay. Whoa, too much butter beer. It is not hogwartz without hagrid. We couldnt accomplish this without you hagrid. [ applause ] h te is a pie ill face t consequences. If you dont believe me, find the death certificate. That is a short scene from adolls house part two making the d. C. Premiere at the landsberg t s one of the leads in the production, were welcoming Craig Wallace to news4 midday. Thank you for being here with us. Thank you. This wonderful to see this and refreshing. I think were talking about how wellknown this play is and how most theater majors studied this through school but this is like a sequel to the1879 classic with adolls house so take us back to the storylinewh and ere we p thic pick things up toda. At the end of the movie, the woman decided to leave her husband and family and just walk ut of the door, which for the 1800s was unheard of for a woman to do. O sour play is set 15 years later. Andhe returns home for reasons that are revealed in our play. And she has to deal with effect that her leaving had onam her fily, primarily her husband, her daughter and her nanny. So as youre talking about that, talk to me about thison producnd because we talked this is in the 1800s it was very clear the gender roles or the precepts for men anuwomen dng that time. How do we see that change or evolve, if at all, during t5 1 years and what is that like to bring that to life today . When things are so different in our c 2019lture than they were in thes. 1800 well i think some of the thingsora is talking about 15 years later are stil some things that wom are addressing. Nora comesteback 15 years and so that makes it the late 1800s. S andhes saying, look, lets end marriage. That marriage shouldnt betw beeen two people. People should have multiple partners. Shes be out and signed contcts and shes a writer and all of th things that once again are unheard of but our han brought ucas n that in and he was interested i what happened nora. I think many people assumed that nora died. Ableshe wasnt going to be to survive without a husband, wiout a family. And your character is torvolt. Yes. And explin about your character. Im her husband whom she left. I didt expect to see her. So seeing hera 15 yearsr is a surprise and i think weve got some unfinished business. Very interesting conversations to be had there. This is a wonderful opportunity for folks to go to again the landsberg theater, this is in penn quarter. What do you hope that audiences walkhway with wen they see this production or the cast out there . Well what is great about the play is that everyone has a point of view. And throughout the play i think youll find that ye on everyones side. Youre rooting for everybody. Craig wallace, thank you so much. See a dolls house part 2 at the lance burg theater through june 30th. Thank you very much. And well get a final check on your midday forecast in a minute. And later today on Ellen Aubrey Plaza gets a scare from chucky. [ ineldible ] [ yng ] ellen rs at 3 00 and sticaik the tsa performs a Crucial Service for all americans helping keep our skies safe. And theyre always looking for ways to improve their methods. Nbcs adeedy roy reports on one Company Using artificial intelligee to help identify potential threats. Reporter a bag is flagged by Airport Security machines forc taining a threat. It turns out to be a knife. But this isnt just aregular bag and this isnt an airport. The space is a lab and the bag and knife are ong the dozens of props used by synapses, a Venture Capital Company Started tuby a snt ian cinnamon. The mpany produced software to make traditional xray machines smarter by incorporatingfi artial intelligence or ai into the scanner. The beautiful thing about Artificial Intelligence is it is modelled after the human brain. Reporter he said an xray vechine with aio catch threats have advantage o human operators. The difference is the ai algorithm, they dont get tired or fatigue and they dont have any bias and they continue to learn time andtime again. We decided to see for ourselves. Cinnamon and his counders ran bags and i look to see if anything was there and time and time again. Om that is anent of the laptop itself. I was wrong. There is a knife in this bag. I missed that. Reporter butim each te the machines caught the threat. It beat me again. Reporter since last fall the tsa has besing this technology in amo denstration at Silicon Valley San Jose International airport as part of the Innovation Task force. We like bringing the other partners into the equation because they have solutions that maybe we hadnt thought of that we can test and bri those into a live environment. Reporter when we asked cinnamon before whether or not the Technology Takes up humane jobs haid it frees up Security Officers to perform higherlevel tasks like interacting with the public to preempt threats. Adedy roy, cnbc business news, san jose, california. And a check on the forecast. Arilia . T now on storm team 4 radar im talking meager lights shower moving through parts of Fairfax County into parts of the district. But most of us are dry and even where we are seeing rain it is super lig in nature. Were going to be dry at least for the next few hours. One we hit 3 00, 4 00 p. M. , the activity in West Virginia and cover aks in the cloud will show scattered showers and thunderstorms later today and the timing between 3 00 to 4 00 and until7 00 p. M. The more sunshine, the bett ance for stronger severe storms with winds and hail the biggest concerns. Dg will have the latest on news4 at 4 00. Thank you very much. That is it for news4 midday. We change for joining us and were back on the news first at 4 00. Get news any time with the nbc washington app. Have a great day and well both see you later. 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